 Build the correct OE VP for the sentence I threw the stone.
 Step 1: OE weorpan ‘to throw’ is a strong verb.
 Step 2: weorpan is a Class 3 verb.
 Step 3: we need a VP in the 1st person singular past tense. Since this is a clear
statement, let us assume that the indicative mood should be used.
 Step 4: no i-mutation applies, as this VP is not in the 2nd or 3rd person singular
present indicative.
 Step 5: the first past stem vowel is used in the 1st person singular past indicative (see
p. 65). Since weorpan is a Class 3 strong verb that has the infinitive stem vowel -eo-,
the preterite singular vowel should be -ea- (see p. 75).1 Then we remove the
infinitive ending -an, and do not add anything, as there is no ending in the 1st
person singular preterite indicative of strong verbs (see p. 65). This leaves us with
wearp in Ic wearp þone stān.
 Build the correct OE VP for the sentence They sail to Gotland.
 Step 1: OE ġeseġlian is a weak verb.
 Step 2: OE ġeseġlian is a Class 2 verb.
 Step 3: we need a VP in the 3rd person plural present tense. Since this is a clear
statement, the indicative mood should probably be used.
 Step 4: we don’t have to consider i-mutation, since that step is only relevant to
strong verbs. (Many weak verbs feature i-mutation, but those forms are already part
of the paradigm, so we don’t have to change anything.)
 Step 5: we remove the infinitive ending -ian, and add -iaþ, as this is what happens to
lufian > lufiaþ. (It may seem unnecssary to remove -i- and then add it again, but if you
consider that not all forms have an -i-, e.g. ġeseġlaþ, it makes more sense.) This leaves
us with ġeseġliaþ in Hīe ġeseġliaþ tō Gotlande (-e for dative singular).
Note, however, that, if the infinitive stem vowel had been -i-, the preterite singular stem vowel would have
been -a- (see singan vs. hweorfan on p. 75). Some classes of strong verbs have different vowel series (see p. 75):
the infinitive vowel will tell you which series “your” verb belongs to.
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